Amnesty International is calling for an investigation into a U.S. airstrike that killed over sixty African migrants detained in a Houthi-run prison in the Saada district of Yemen in April of last year, claiming the incident might be considered a war crime.
A detention center that is known to house Ethiopian migrants trying to enter Saudi Arabia via Yemen’s conflict zone was the target of the April 28 strike. Amnesty claims that the bombing was indiscriminate and draws attention to continuous abuses committed by all sides in the catastrophic conflict in the nation.
According to Kristine Beckerle, deputy Middle East and North Africa director at Amnesty International, “the U.S. attack on the migrant detention facility in Saada qualifies as an indiscriminate strike and should be investigated as a war crime.”
